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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hilary Mantel is pretty much the definition of dense— I assumed OP included that qualifier almost for that reader— but you do you[/quote]

I’m a different poster and I had deferred reading wolf hall for years because I had heard it was dense but read it on our London vacation last year and found it not at all dense.  I thought it was a very easy to read style and really brought the personalities to life.

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PP1 here: agreed— I genuinely don’t think they’re dense in any sense of the word, but reading is very personal so everyone will have their own definition. Funnily, I also thought of “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” as a recommendation, since it’s a whimsical “alternative” history of 19th century England, but I believe that book is the definition of “dense”— it’s written like a history textbook and is about 800 pages! (However, it’s an absolute gem of a book if you have the time and patience to put the work in.)

On the lighter end, there is always Philippa Gregory, who is quite fun, but if you actually want to learn something, proceed with caution; her books drive historians crazy.[/quote]

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